“The island” is how locals refer to Presque Isle State Park, a peninsula north of town that juts out into Lake Superior. In the summer, you can find us jumping off of Black Rocks, or walking along the breakwall to the lighthouse. Presque Isle is such a shockingly beautiful place that even landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (one of the guys behind NYC’s Central Park) took one look at it in the summer of 1891 and advised the city to “touch nothing”.
The fall is for hikes through leafy woods, with glimpses of the lake as a backdrop. Spring (which is basically an otherwise miserable season in Marquette) brings some seriously epic storms — I remember driving out to the island to watch storms hit from the safety of the car.